Clarkson has refused to apologise, insisting that he will not say sorry for something he hadn’t said.

Speaking about the BBC’s ‘plan’ for him to apologise, he added: ‘But saying sorry for using the most racist word of them all and hoping the story would die down as a result?
‘…It’s something I hadn’t done.’

According to Clarkson he ‘mumbled where the offensive word would normally occur’ as he recited the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe.

The BBC said it had ‘left him in no doubt about how seriously we view this’.

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